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Facebook = heroin, apparently. (Photo: Howzzdat) There are many ways to obtain Internet access, particularly as a college student in the United States. If you don’t have a laptop, you can always go to the university library, or borrow a friend’s computer. Or, if you’re an unidentified 18-year-old University of...

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Social ad technology company 140 Proof is adding Pinterest to the list of services that it serves. On Tuesday, the company announced that its integration with the third-largest social network will allow brands to benefit from increased social sharing and re-pins of their brand messaging. Through the use of its so-called...

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$30 million buys a lot of shirts with whimsical patterns. (Photo: Wikipedia) As if recently released prisoners didn’t have enough trouble readjusting to life on the outside, now they have to learn all sorts of new digital skills, too. [WNYC] Spotify is reportedly launching its own video streaming service, with...

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It's no secret that the tech industry is dominated by men. And now, it's also no secret that it can be hard to be a woman in tech. Last week, a joke about dongles and forking at a tech conference led to two people losing their jobs, and sparked a discussion...

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Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that collects and delivers the top social media news first thing every morning. You can sign up to receive Social Media Insights here or at the bottom of this post. How Has Facebook Changed News Discovery (AllFacebook)When Facebook introduced its redesigned...

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SocialExpress, a fledgling Belgian-Dutch company that offers small businesses and marketers online tools to generate custom social media reports, has raised 250,000 euros (roughly $320,000) in seed funding. The startup, founded by 24-year old Belgian Ivo Minjauw (pictured below, right) in his dorm room in Kortrijk about a year ago,...

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As quantified self devices and services come into their own, gamified social fitness tracker Fitocracy has found itself smack dab in the middle of a movement. But alas! The YC-backed company isn’t shoving wrist bands, smartwatches or pocket pedometers in the faces of its users. In fact, founder Richard Talens...

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No, Spotify has not just officially announced a reported move into video services, but the music streaming startup is continuing to put itself into the same places where video is. Today, Spotify announced with LG that it would be integrating its premium, paid service on to a range of connected...

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Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple - they're all nudging their users inside their own ecosystems and making it harder to stay outside. Why? For moneyDigital life has an increasingly Orwellian future: the big ecosystem creators are slowly but inexorably nudging users towards their ecosystems. It's like the Iron Curtain coming...

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Candy Crash Saga is all the rage at the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, so much so that we weren’t even able to get into the “Candy Crush Saga postmortem: Luck in the Right Places” session today. The entire development community is interested in learning how Candy Crush...